Virginia Tech

After having an appeal denied Tuesday by Virginia Tech's student conduct committee, projected starting safety C.J. Reavis continues to be dismissed from the school, according to his attorney Jimmy Turk.

Notre Dame is privileged. Has been for decades. The Fighting Irish have their own football television contract, with NBC. Their athletic director, Jack Swarbrick, helps govern the College Football Playoff, and they compete in the nation's premier basketball conference while maintaining football...

At least three times last football season a Virginia Tech assistant coach stationed in the press box alerted medical personnel on the sideline to an injured player. The instances reminded Mike Goforth that as watchful as he and his staff try to be during a game, they cannot see everything.

Bucky Hodges, Kendall Fuller, Dadi Nicolas and Luther Maddy all represented Virginia Tech on Thursday when the preseason All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team was announced, while Virginia’s Quin Blanding also earned a spot.

To be charitable, reporters voting at the ACC Football Kickoff have whiffed on their Coastal Division forecast three years running. During that span, 11 of 327 ballots, less than 4 percent, correctly picked the champion.

With a revised contract worth $2.1 million that includes several incentives and a $3 million buyout for the next three years, Virginia may have done just about everything possible to keep Tony Bennett in Charlottesville for the foreseeable future.

BALTIMORE — Jimmye Laycock is more persnickety about quarterbacks than Anthony Bourdain is about foie gras. He played the position at William and Mary and as the Tribe's head coach has tutored some of the college game's best.

Tra-C Curtis never felt like a sideshow when she came to the Apprentice School as a 29-year-old assistant on football coach Aubrey Kelly's staff, but it was 2001 — a time when a female coach was football's version of a unicorn.

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The mid-afternoon heat index neared 100 outside as rap played in the Heritage High hallways moments before the first official football practice of the 2015 season. You wouldn't have guessed that watching Hurricanes head coach George Massenburg.

Lorenzo Taliaferro has made it in the NFL and looks to solidify his place with the Baltimore Ravens in his second season. Ben Edwards is overjoyed that the New York Giants are giving him a shot and vows to give his all in a quest to beat the odds and make a name for himself.

Williamsburg Post 39 was eliminated from the state American Legion tournament with a 4-2, 10-inning loss Thursday to Rocky Mount Post 6 at Riverbend High in Fredericksburg. Rocky Mount scored twice in the top of the 10th.